Tube brush



Oct. 5 192e Y. LARSSON TUBE BRUSH Filed Sept. 15, 1925 Patented Oct. 5, lttzfi- IVAR YNGVE LARSSON, OF SALTSJ'OZBADEN, SWEDEN.

TUBE BRUSH.

Application filed September 15, 1925, Serial No. 56,529, and in Sweden September 13, 1924; V

The present invention refers to a tube brush, especially adapted for shoe cream.

An embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing. The tube brush is shown in cross section in Fig. 1 and, filled and closed, partially in cross section in Fig. 2. A shell with shanks to be gripped by the fingers, which is mounted on the tube brush, is shown in Fig. 8 in cross section through the shanks and in Fig. 4 in cross section between the shanks. Fig. 5 shows the shell with the tube rolled up between its shanks. Fig. 6 shows a cap for the tube.

Inmanutacturing the tube one proceeds in the following manner. The upper end portion of the tube 1, which is made of soft metal sheet is provided'with a central depression in form of an outwardly open cylinder 2, which is filled with brush material. Then a metal tube 3 is forced in'from above, pressing the material to the sides and entering into communication with the interior of the tube 1 through a hole, which is made in the upper end portion. The brush material is held fast only by the jamming action effected by the tube 2 being forced in.

When the material in the tube, for instance shoe cream, is to be used it is pressed out through the end tube 3 and by reason of the closely packed bristles the cream is prevented from passing laterally therethrough and is guided thereby to the outer end of the bristles.

In the shown preferred embodiment of the invention the cylindrical portion 2 is arranged to servenot only as an embracing case for one end of the bristles but also as a hold for a shell 4: of hard metal sheet, which surrounds the upper portion of the tube. The tip of this shell is cut off, forming an opening 5'for the brush material,

brush ma'terial.

the shell being provided at this opening with flaps bent inwards and catching into the cylindrical portion'Q, towards the inner surface of which they are pressed by the 4 This shell which is adapted to be gripped by the fingers, is conveniently slashed to form two shanks, in such a manner that by the rolling up of the tube this and the spanner 6 can freely pass between the shanks to. the closed end portion. 7 Conveniently one applies over the brush a cap 7, which may bev provided with a central pin 8, passing through the tube v3 and preventing its being choked up by hardening cream.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent is: V r A device of the character described, in-- eluding in combination of a soft metal tube having the inner end closed and adapted to be rolled from the inner end toward the outer end and having the outer end provided with a central. opening, a central depression about the opening, the inner wall of the depression about the opening constitutin the mouth piece, brush bristles mounted about the depression within'the mouth piece, and a shell of hard metal having the outer 7 end provided with an opening and an inturned flange adapted to be jammed between the outer wall of the depression and the inner ends of the bristles having the opposite end bifurcated to'leave two relatively widely spaced shanks between which the tube is accommodated and rolled toward the other en In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name.

IVAB YNGVELARSSON. 

